April issue 2010

A Flair for Hair

April 30, 2010

Interview: Mashooq Sultana

“The Frontier’s musicians are living in penury and perpetual fear of militants” - Mashooq Sultana…

April 30, 2010

Memories of Another Day

In her unique style, Sorayya Khan, in her latest novel, Five Queen’s Road, writes about…

April 30, 2010

The Ugly Truth

Malcom Hutcheson is one of those rare photographers who refrains from capturing the beauty of…

April 30, 2010

Once Upon a Time in Karachi

You will be the glory of the East; would that I come Again to see…

April 30, 2010

Scorsese Strikes Again

Martin Scorsese’s movies can be hard to rate. As one of the finest directors of…

April 30, 2010

Sheep and Chic

Cotton pastels and flowery embroidery are among the first things one sees when entering Sheep,…

April 30, 2010

Money Talks

Teen Patti features Amitabh Bachan as Venkut, a professor and mathematician at a prestigious university…

April 30, 2010

Palette of Hues

A bevy of luscious hues and floral prints take centre stage in Deepak Perwani’s current…

April 30, 2010

Interview: Qasim Zia of the PHF

“If we want to excel in sports, we will have to invest in it” -…

April 30, 2010

Pakistan Hockey: The Experts Speak

Even before Pakistan’s humiliating loss in the playoff for 11th position against minnows Canada in…

April 30, 2010

Past Scandals in Pakistan Hockey

It was in the 1972 Olympics that Pakistan hockey suffered one of its biggest scandals…

April 30, 2010

Interview: Siraj-ul-Islam Bukhari, Karachi Cricket Association

“The structure of the game has been destroyed because stakeholders at the grassroots level have…

April 30, 2010

Pakistan Hockey in the Doldrums

It was in 1982 that Pakistan seemed to have reached world hockey’s Everest, when they…

April 30, 2010

The Saai Look

Style, elegance and class are all words that fittingly describe the concept of Saai, a…

April 30, 2010

Interview: Aamir Atlas Khan

“In Pakistan it seems that the people governing sports just don’t care” - Aamir Atlas…

April 30, 2010

No Room for Principles

Is there any room for principled politics in Pakistan’s chequered history? One needs only to…

April 30, 2010

Squashed

There was once a time when nobody would dare predict a non-Pakistani champion at the…

April 30, 2010

Pakistan Cricket: An Ex-player Speaks

These days television talk shows on sports are full of discussions and debates on what’s…

April 30, 2010

Clean Bowled

A Lack of Honour When Australian spinners Shane Warne and Tim May first accused then…

April 30, 2010

Game Over: The Slow Death of Sports in Pakistan

Sports, it is said, isn’t a matter of life and death. It is far more…

April 30, 2010

Searching for Solutions

The last year has been a strange one for Pakistani cricket, even by its lofty…

April 30, 2010

Interview: Muqeem Khan, Animator

“Computer graphics is a platform through which I seek to sort out my thoughts” -…

April 27, 2010

A Phone-y Thriller

As with a lot of recent Indian movies, Karthik Calling Karthik attempts to explore a…

April 24, 2010

The Bad War

In the wake of what is believed to be the deadliest attack by Maoists on…

April 23, 2010

Taste of Tradition

If you never heard Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan live, don’t make the mistake of missing…

April 22, 2010

Burton’s Blunderland

It is hard to say where Tim Burton went wrong. His movies over the last…

April 22, 2010

Rewarding Literature

Pakistani fiction writers continued to make headlines when Daniyal Mueenuddin took the First Book Prize…

April 22, 2010

Interview: Ameena Saiyid, Managing Director, OUP

“The Karachi Literature Festival will raise the profile of our many wonderful authors and help…

April 21, 2010

Separatist Sketches

A profile of separatist groups operating in Balochistan. The Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) is currently…

April 21, 2010

Regime of Fear

In Balochistan, hope is like water, marked only by its absence in some places and…

April 21, 2010

The New Wave

In the hunt for the new and the novel, one came across a fresh batch…

April 21, 2010

A Flair for Hair

Two years after establishing the first Toni&Guy haircare salon in Karachi, Saeeda Mandviwalla, director of…

April 20, 2010

Act This!

The first-ever improvisational/situational comedy act in Urdu, Aisa karogai to kon ayega, directed by Azfar…

April 20, 2010

The Experience of Existence

“Being There,” a show of eight women artists — Hamra Abbas, Risham Syed, Nausheen Saeed,…

April 19, 2010

Interview: Maath Albermawy

“One Pakistani is equal to three people of other nationalities in his work output” -…

April 19, 2010

Simply Scrumptious

Already the owner of a culinary school, an award-winning restaurant by the name of Coriander…

April 18, 2010

Newsline’s Dynasty

A celebration is nothing without people to share it with, and it was in this…

April 17, 2010

Looking Back

Saeed Khan’s work exemplifies the classic traditions of photography, although the use of the digital…

April 17, 2010

A Generation Lost

Smashed windows, cars overturned, the smell of burning tyres, police in riot gear, the helicopter…

April 16, 2010

Win Some, Lose Some

Pakistan and the US concluded their first round of talks under the auspices of the…

April 15, 2010

Why Blame Democracy?

In Pakistan, the critics of democracy often lose the forest for the trees by blaming…

April 15, 2010

The Language of Jihad

The Pak Institute for Peace Studies’ (PIPS)Understanding the Militants’ Media in Pakistan: Outreach and Impact…

April 14, 2010

Not the Best Bet

The US list of specially designated global terrorists contains the name of former Afghan mujahideen…

April 11, 2010

Editor’s Note: April 2010

Senator Raza Rabbani must be a very relieved man. The Parliamentary Committee on Constitutional Reforms…

April 7, 2010

Literary Life

Karachi seems to be in the grip of something of a cultural revival in the…

April 2, 2010

Pride of Performance Honours Bestowed

On Pakistan Day on March 23, the President’s Pride of Performance Awards were bestowed on…

By Zara Farooqui | Society | Published 15 years ago

Two years after establishing the first Toni&Guy haircare salon in Karachi, Saeeda Mandviwalla, director of Toni&Guy, successfully launched the Toni&Guy Education Academy in Karachi on March 27. This education programme aims to benefit those who cannot avail visa requirements, go for training abroad, or pay high fees for quality education.

Now, an international standard certification in hairdressing is available to anyone with ambition and hairdressing aspirations. With the likes of Robert Gibson, British deputy high commissioner Karachi, Shazia Marri, minister for tourism and culture, and Roger Woodward, Toni&Guy London representative, addressing the launch, the academy promises to be a huge step in the right direction for aesthetics education in Pakistan.